It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    And guess what? You don’t need blockchain for that.

    Torrents exists, IPFS dropped dependency on block chain. What blockchain do is that if your literal neighbor has the file you want, you must first connect to the global super inefficient network to sync your chain. And if you have censored Internet? Well…

    Layer torrent on top of Yggdrasil on top of I2P and you’ll get faster, more decentralized and more resilient network than any blockchain ever done. Such network would continue to work from friend to friend even if your whole town get cut from global net.

    • parpol@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      Yes, torrents exist, and people get fined or go to jail for seeding them, especially ebooks, movies and music, which is what the internet archive hosts.

      Same would apply to yggdrasil.

      But no one is going to jail for running an Ethereum node even if illegal file sharing occurs as a result of it because it is impossible to prevent it by design.